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Guarding of government secrets from your lifetime? >> well, there's a reason why we have a security clearance process. and if someone doesn't get it, it's not enough to say he wasn't denied it, he wasn't granted it. he should have never had access to the top secret things. when i was in the peptgon had a code word that was a protected pass, so i can't tell you the name of my clearance or the information i learned during time, even now many years later. and we want to protection the information that is necessary to running our government, to making policy decisions. and that's why we don't let ...

Welcome back, everybody. it is the bottom of the hour. let's start with the morning's top stories. the white house is working to try and contain the fallout over what officials knew and when about domestic violence allegations against a former top aide. >> but in an extraordinary moment the director of the fbi threw a wrench in what the white house says actually happened. kristen welker has more. >> reporter: the white house on defense amid questions about whether top officials here were trying to protect rob porter whose security clearance was held up amid allegations of spousal abuse and con...

Understand. >> and bob, when the white house -- when the fbi director in his very measured tone ran methodically through these four different steps in the security clearance process for mr. porter, ending, of course, in the fact he was not cleared to work in this job at this title, did that indicate anything to you like it could be fatal for someone at the other end like a general kelly? >> it's very hard to say who knew what when based on the public reporting up to this point. but one thing is clear, somebody's going to wiennd up having to answer for it. i don't know if the process was broken...

That has been used by previous administrations. >> no, they are not. the processes of the trump administration are unique to the trump administration, including the process of obtaining security clearances for white house personnel like jared kushner. who still does not have a security clearance. some estimates indicate as many as 40 people in the trump white house do not have the security clearance that is required for their jobs. and now the security clearance process has completely undone the trump white house for the last week. we know that white house staffer rob porter was accused of bea...

Fbi. intelligence officials have told me lot of these things are being held up because of lingering questions in the security process and as the fbi has said it's really up to the white house to issue these clearances once they have a recommends dags from the fbi. you can be involved on this at times. what is your explanation for how thisworks? >> i've asked the inspector general to investigate the security clearance process in the white house. this report by cnn is chilling. it indicates that a vast number of people with access to the nation's most important and consequential may have secrets...